Oh
Canada, you amuse us so. Your mayors are
better than our mayors. (If you don’t know of what I speak, you need to see this). Your
beer, not so much. Tim Horton’s is good,
but not as good as Bojangles (if you are confused by either of those two
references, you are missing out and need to get to Ontario and North Carolina,
respectively, for breakfast deliciousness).
Your mounted police, however, beat our mounted police hands down. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (aka
Mounties) have a noble tradition and are akin to our FBI. Ours tend to be guys doing crowd control and checking vehicle registration stickers.
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| Corp. Ron Francis |
Then
there’s this guy: The Globe and Mail reports that Corporal
Ron Francis was tased by a fellow Mountie last week and arrested while in
uniform. The RCMP won’t tell why, but he’s
charged with assaulting another RCMP officer.
He’s
also the Mountie who complained that he wasn’t allowed to smoke medical
marijuana while on duty and in uniform.
This
leads to a bunch of questions:
(1)
who knew that medical marijuana was legal in Canada?
(2)
is it paid for by Canada’s universal healthcare that Republicans hate so much? –
this might make their heads explode if they thought Obamacare would force the
payment of medical marijuana, and for police, too;
(3)
was he in uniform lighting up a spliff when confronted by another officer and
refused to put out said spliff and got tased - because that would seriously put
a harsh on his high and probably defeat the purpose of the medical marijuana
for PTSD in the first place;
(4)
if an officer needs medical marijuana for PTSD, should he still be in uniform;
and
(5)
did he cite the mayor of Toronto in the confrontation and say, “it wasn’t
crack?”
Maybe
we get answers. Maybe he gets his
medicine. Maybe he doesn’t get tased again and gets the help he needs.
One
thing is certain, if Florida gets medical marijuana, I’m certain this will
happen there and there will either be a bear, python or drunken feral hog also
in the story. Florida has to step up to
meet the challenge. And when challenged,
it always does.
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